Universal Security Corporation v. The Department of Employment Security
Case Details
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- Unpublished
- Procedural Posture — the stage the case had reached
- appeal
- State
- Illinois
- Circuit
- 1st Circuit
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Outcome
Appellate court affirmed the Board of Review's decision granting unemployment insurance benefits to Darvin Hooker, finding that his inadvertent dozing off on duty did not constitute deliberate and willful misconduct under the Illinois Unemployment Insurance Act, despite Universal Security's reasonable no-sleeping policy.
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